This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it...
                       -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Descended from the prehistoric horse found in fossil form at Solutre' in Southern France, today this breed is native to the Carmargue region on the Rhone delta.
It has also benefited from North African stock. Registered only since 1967, this breed serves primarily as a saddle horse. It is usually gray and averages 14.2 hands in height.

Origin
The Camargue is one of the most ancient breeds in the world. His origins are so remote that they still remain a mystery : Arab, Barb, Asiatic or Celt, descendant of the prewjalsky horse, the Camargue> also has definite similarities with the « Solutré » horse (50 000 BC). The Camargue is supposed to have followed the progressive withdrawal of the sea which had flooded the Maconnais and transformed it into a vast marsh land, an environment identical to that of the present Rhône delta. Already known to the Phoenician sailors, his breeding was encouraged by Julius Caesar. He subsequently developed around Arles and is found again as the mount of the Protestant revolutionaries in the Cévennes. Later on, Napoleon recruited them for his army and they figured again around 1865 as a good carrier during the construction of the Suez Canal.